LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY.
The usua weekly meeting of tho Wai-iti Literary Society was held in the schoolroom on Thursday evening, Mr F. B. Cropp in the chair, the business of the evening being "Impromptu Speeches." The subjecta spoken on were:—The Panama Canal, Good Manners, Sir Joseph Ward and the Naval Conference, Defence of the Empire, Importation of Domestic Servants, Darwin's Theory, and others, all of which were well discussed. On Thursday evening last the subject on the syllabus was "Picture Gallery Mr E. Wadsworth occupied the eh«ir. The picture chosen for nn essay to be written in the room, was a bnsh camp scene on the Main Trunk line. Sixteen essays were written, all of which wero very creditable. A vote was taken on the merits of the essays as they were read by the secretary. The following received the highest number of votes:—Mr J. W, Eves, first; Mr Longton, second; and Mrs I. Tunnicliffe, third. The next item on the syllabus is a debate on "Universal Military Training."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 June 1909, Page 4
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